Name: Bakkhai
ISBN: 9780811227100

Bakkhai

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson writes, "Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkhai is his most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single ruinous demand for adoration. Dionysos is the god of intoxication. Once you fall under his influence, there is no telling where you will end up."

Book Details

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: Dec 12nd, 2017
Pages: 96
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.50in - 0.55lb
EAN: 9780811227100
Categories: • Ancient & Classical• American - General• Women Authors

About the Author

Carson, Anne: - Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living.

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#BreakALeg to all at @NYTofGB Bakkhai in a new version by Anne Carson and directed by Maisie Newman, the 2022 Bryan Forbes bursary director, which opens tonight at the NYT’s Workshop Theatre https://t.co/2JyXg6bEvH

Archiving, Engaging and Encouraging the living Esoteric Tradition, Hermeticism, Aleister Crowley's Thelema & much more. Open Access Occultism for over 25 years.

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Praise for this book

Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer.--Susan Sontag

Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today.--Michael Ondaatje

As a translator, Carson is well aware that her work must issue from the ever-changing afterlife of the original, an approach that requires cultural and textual fluidity. In short, Carson, like Euripedes, is unafraid to take risks.-- "Bomb"

Her translation of this Greek tragedy, first performed in 405 BC, reawakens the original's sublimity and gives us the opportunity to be absorbed and shocked anew by the story of Dionysus.-- "Lit Hub"

In traversing the eternal pull between what humans call reason and what that reason deems primal, Carson's trademark simplicity allows this work to feel simultaneously ancient and contemporary.-- "Publisher's Weekly"

For two decades Carson's work has moved--phrase by phrase, line by line, project by improbable project--in directions that a human brain would never naturally move. The approach has won her accolades and an electric reputation in the literary world.--Sam Anderson "The New York Times Magazine"

The poetry in her translation is light, swift, and beautiful.-- "The New Yorker"

What people are saying

NationalYouthTheatre

@NYTofGB

1 year

We're a charity which has been supporting and championing young people onstage and offstage since 1956.

#LondonTheatre Giving Theatre a New Audience. New voices welcome: https://t.co/QtFKW7L1hN #EdFringe #News #Reviews #Interviews #Tickets editor: @gregstr26

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